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Service did not start due to a logon failure
My company installs and supports a third party print management software for our customers. The software requires administrative level privileges for printer/print job manipulation. To do this the ...
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Renaming a service account with a secret password
Our installer creates a specifically-named user account for a service to use. The installer generates a random password for Windows to assign to the account. The installer then creates the service ...
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How to Create Local Windows Desktop Service Accounts?
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In Windows Home / Professional, (Windows 10), what is the recommended way to create a Local Service Account?
Is there any documentation for this? (Powershell, GUI, etc).
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Can Windows 7 service control command recognise username with localhost domain?
I have set up a new user called MY_SERVUSER on a Windows 7 via computer management on a computer that is not on a domain. I have a script that sets up our service to start as that user that used to ...
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Windows service fails to start with custom user until started once with local user
All of a sudden my Windows service application after installation does not start. (Some services stop automatically if they have no work to do.)
The service uses a custom user. If I change the ...
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